Natalie asked about the relationship between Danish and Swedish. This is an interesting question, because it really depends. I have a Danish friend and when he speaks, I understand most of it. He understands me when I speak Swedish, but finds it problematic when our Swedish friend speaks Swedish. At the same time, there are Danish people whom I don’t understand at all – there have been people speaking to me in Danish and I would only get a few words here and there.
When it comes to the written language, then Swedish and Danish are really close and there are no problems in understanding it.
Sunday 3 February 2013
Swedish vs. Danish
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Thanks for devoting an entire post to this question. Mutual intelligibility (or lack thereof!) among related languages fascinates me. :)
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